San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-07
you DON'T HAVE TO LAUGH,

Why say gun goes of ?" The gun
stays there.-JouInal OF Education.
A medium backed by spirit hand
ought to be invincible In pOker.-Texas
Siftings.
The man who has never sworn at q
telephone never saw one.-MilwAukee
Journal.
What shall 1t profit man n he eats &
seyenty.tiye cent dinner and then gets
Observation-Disclosures.
Queen Victoria has lost her favorite
dog. just her luck! She won't have TO
pay his license fee any more.-BOston
Transcript.
The caterpillar is q beautiful type OF
frugality, because he never has the
slightest trouble in making both ends
meet.-PncS.
Did you ever notice, In playing poker,
how hard IL ia for q young lady who
holds flush In her hand to conceal IL In
her fsce?-Burlington Free Press.
He was love struck when first they met,
And soon was bound to fcttcrs;
One year and she sent back loves truck
His gifts aud all his letters.
Chicago National.
The greatest ant on earth-An ele-
phsnt--Waterloo Observer.
TO tell a horses age accurately, fret
ascertain it.-DanvilIe Breeze.
How to have white hsnds-Let some
body else do all the woIk.-Somervile
Journal.
Tourists report that this Is a delight
full time to visit the mountains. The
hotels are closed philadelphia Call.
Don't you think it's getting pretty
late. George p "Yes, dear, 1t Is. a little
for one to be ont, but not so very late
for two."-BOston Gazette.
Lady TO drug clerk)-"A two-cent
stamp, please" Clerk (absent minded)
Yes, madam. Will you take 1t with
you or have 1t sentp"-Hsrper's Bazaar.
People have been known to talk
against gambling all their lives, on
every possible occasion, and then, after
all, to go and get Notwithstanding
journal.
Southerner lin Glasgow, to friend)-
"By the way, do you know MoScrew ~
NOrtherner-"Ken McScrew ?" 90 fine
A graund man, McScrew! Keeps the
Ssw-bsth-an' everything else he can
lay his hands on Punch,
Rufus, DIR wuZ five pears on this
tree an now only count four. How's
that?" 81 don't know, granny, 'nless
you counted one twice." - Hsrper's
Young People.
Edith TO nurse) Papa says that
such big family OF girls distresses him,
and he wishes he had boy" Nurse
"What are you going to dor" Edith-"I
am going to ring for boy,"-Puok.
Two families occupying the same
house in Wallingford, Conn. fought
long and bitterly until the woman on
the first floor burned feathers and
cayenne pepper. Then the woman on
the second floor capltulated and moved
out.
An O5ceOla county (Mich.) farmer
named A. l.. Dickinson, has serious OBJ
jectiOns to having ''Jim" Ashley run a
railroad across his forty acres Of land,
and has sOwed 1t with dynamite. At
last accounts, Mr.. Dickinson held the
fort.
And now the honest farmer packs
His apples up for town;
This is the top row of his sacks
q o 90 o . o
Al TINS Is lower down
600 o . o . o o o 90
Baltimore Times.
Railroad Iconoclasm-"Well, Bill,
how goes 1t? Are yOOu breaking YETI"
"Oh, no; I've given up breaking and
gone to baggage MISUNDERSTANDING
ton Free Press.
About month ago some one was
guilty of a novel called Soap" differ
ent author has just written Bubbles"
The two writers should collsbOrate-
| Book Chat.
Most mems ideas OF decoration are
some what crude. They nearly all seem
| to consider their empty boots and slip
pers fit ornaments for any room In the
hOuse.-Journal OF Education.
There is a good deal of false registra-
tIOn right here in Pittsburg," remarked
a prominent politician. "Where?" asked
the reporter, anxious for a sensation.
AT the police station" - Plttsburg
| Chronicle.